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Brian Webb - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Michael Howlett - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • designing for robustness surprise agility and improvisation in Policy design
    Policy and Society, 2018
    Co-Authors: Michael Howlett, Giliberto Capano, M Ramesh
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    ABSTRACTHow best to deal with uncertainty and surprise in Policy-making is an issue which has troubled Policy studies for some time. Studies of Policy uncertainty and Policy Failure have emphasized...

  • why are Policy innovations rare and so often negative blame avoidance and problem denial in climate change Policy making
    Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions, 2014
    Co-Authors: Michael Howlett
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    Abstract While many studies have put forward prescriptions for action on climate change it is not clear under what conditions Policy innovations are likely to be pursued or what form they will take. It is the purpose of this paper to bring some clarity to these subjects. The paper follows Hood in describing Policy-makers in democratic polities as highly risk-averse and therefore unlikely to take Policy action unless the circumstances and the nature of the problem they face are propitious. It also suggests that when actions are taken these are not always ‘positive’ – that is oriented towards dealing with the objective manifestations of a problem – but can also be ‘negative’ – that is, geared towards denial of a problem or its rejection. The paper examines the literature on Policy Failure and success in order to isolate several dimensions of Failure which decision-makers would like to avoid. It then combines these elements to construct a two stage model of decision-making which identifies which types of problems and circumstances are likely to lead to innovative activity and which are not. This model is then applied to the case of activities for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Annamaria Sgueglia - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Allan Mcconnell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Bureaucratic Failure and the UK's Lack of Preparedness for Foot and Mouth Disease
    2016
    Co-Authors: Allan Mcconnell, Alastair Stark
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    This article explores the UK's lack of preparedness for Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and the consequences for the 2001 outbreak. First, it utilises literature on crisis management and Policy Failure in order explore the problems caused by, and explanations for, lack of crisis preparedness. Second, it examines in detail a series of overlapping bureaucratic Failures, particularly on the part of the Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), which not only reduced the UK's capacity to cope with the epidemic, but also exacerbated it. These Failures included cultural complacency, resource weaknesses, lack of contingency planning, delays in implementing EU legislation, confused priorities and a Failure to learn from the previous major outbreak in 1967-68. Finally, it suggests that explanations for the UK's inadequate preparedness for FMD can befound at the individual, organisational and societal levels

  • a public Policy approach to understanding the nature and causes of foreign Policy Failure
    Journal of European Public Policy, 2016
    Co-Authors: Allan Mcconnell
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    ABSTRACTAll governments are vulnerable to Policy Failure but our understanding of the nature and causes of Policy Failure is highly underdeveloped. This contribution, written from a public Policy perspective, sets out a framework for understanding these issues as applied to foreign Policy. In doing so, it seeks a cross-disciplinary fertilization of thinking that uses the messy and contested reality of Policy Failure as fundamentally a key – rather than a barrier – to advancing our understanding of a phenomenon referred to variously as Policy fiascos, Policy disasters, Policy blunders and Policy Failures.

  • what is Policy Failure a primer to help navigate the maze
    Public Policy and Administration, 2015
    Co-Authors: Allan Mcconnell
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    The discipline of public Policy has struggled to come to terms with how we may conceive of ‘Policy Failure’. It tends to assume either that Failure is self-evident or that it can be assessed by mea...

  • Policy success Policy Failure and grey areas in between a framework to help capture complex Policy outcomes
    Journal of Public Policy, 2010
    Co-Authors: Allan Mcconnell
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    Policy protagonists are keen to claim that Policy is successful while opponents are more likely to frame policies as Failures. The reality is that Policy outcomes are often somewhere in between these extremes. An added difficulty is that Policy has multiple dimensions, often succeeding in some respects but not in others, according to facts and their interpretation. This paper sets out a framework designed to capture the bundles of outcomes that indicate how successful or unsuccessful a Policy has been. It reviews existing literature on Policy evaluation and improvement, public value, good practice, political strategy and Policy Failure and success in order to identify what can be built on and gaps that need to be filled. It conceives Policy as having three realms: processes, programs and politics. Policies may succeed and/or fail in each of these and along a spectrum of success, resilient success, conflicted success, precarious success and Failure. It concludes by examining contradictions between different forms of success, including what is known colloquially as good politics but bad Policy.

Richard Helliwell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • where did the marginal land go farmers perspectives on marginal land and its implications for adoption of dedicated energy crops
    Energy Policy, 2018
    Co-Authors: Richard Helliwell
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    Dedicated energy crops such as miscanthus and short rotation coppice willow were expected by UK Policy and academic modelling to be deployed across large swaths of UK marginal lands in response to farm and market level incentives, delivering on bioenergy Policy objectives. Yet, this never materialised. This article examines a previously unanalysed component of this Policy Failure by comparing and contrasting Policy and farmer perspectives on marginal land as a suitable site for energy crops. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 32 livestock, arable and mixed farmers in England this research suggests that the Policy framing of energy crops on marginal land to resolve sustainability controversies, was translated by the farming community into ‘energy crops are for marginal land’. This acted as a multifaceted barrier to dedicated energy crops due to complex interactions between farmers’ personal and cultural values, on-farm practices, technologies, regulations and market developments. Farmers, never considered their land marginal enough, consequently this Policy framing invoked considerable resistance. This highlights the importance of embedding understandings of farmers’ cultural values, on-farm practices, technological change, and tensions between different bodies of regulation when articulating new Policy initiatives and the way in which Policy narratives translate into practical settings.